Made to accompany a Report on the Improvement of that Stream for the navigation of it by Steam Boats; in obedience to a Resolution of Congress dated April 26, 1834 by Howard Stansbury, U.S. Assist. Civ Eng.; Taken from Matthew Rhea Map of Tennessee...

Call to the District Court of the Confederate States of America in Nashville by Clerk Jacob McGavock for N. E. Alloway. Alloway is the garnishee, answering the interrogatories of the Court dealing with property and allegiances. Authorization...

Col. Giltner commanded the 4th KY Cav. Regt. CSA, part of John Hunt Morgan's cavalry. Giltner's unit was part of the cavalry detailed to guard Greeneville, Tenn. on the night of Sept. 3, 1864 when Gen. Morgan was killed outside the Williams house...

Mentions his regiment getting ready "to go to Nashville," from whence he was sent to Johnsonville (Tenn.). He was present for the Battle of Johnsonville on Nov. 4-5, 1864. In this letter he is discussing pay says he "had to pay $1.50 for the...

General order No. 73 from Major General Rousseau sentencing Alfred Fowler of Sumner County to three years hard labor in the penitentiary in Nashville for the crime of "being a bushwhacker" with the Lay & Harper Gang, shooting at Federal Soldiers,...

Letter from Benjamin Yarbrough to his wife Mary Jane. He states that he left his camp to visit home but returned without trouble and "they never said a thing" about it. He also comments on the amount of money he will send home. Flag stationery.

Two 5-pointed brass stars belonged to Surgeon Robert Wood Mitchell, Vaughan's 13th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Mitchell was appointed surgeon in 1861, and was paroled in Mobile in 1865. Surgeons held the rank of major which was a single star on each...